On January 12, a group of cars and vans filled with rowdy, flag-waving Amazigh activists left Algiers and began a three-day tour of seven Algerian provinces, under the slogan of “Yennayer, feast of national solidarity”. Before departure, the “Yennayer caravan” received an Algerian flag and best wishes from Mounia Meslem, …

Jadu, Libya – Almost all Libyans know Shokri Agmar. In 2011, they saw him daily on television, in a program broadcast from Qatar. The 33-year-old lawyer is the host of Libya’s very first Amazigh-language program. “I had mixed feelings,” Agmar told Al Jazeera from a cafe in downtown Tripoli. “On …